Fauna of the Plots
The major study that has been completed involves the population of enchytraeidae. There have also been studies of invertebrates, but these are not yet published.
Numbers of Enchytraeidae in ten 0.001 m2 cores.
| Plot | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| C. glandulosa | 5 | 106 | |||||
| C. sphagnetorum | 6 | 50 | 367 | ||||
| A. affinis | 50 | ||||||
| A. bohemica | 7 | 7 | 17 | 12 | 13 | ||
| A.eiseni | |||||||
| E. parva | 16 | 6 | 8 | ||||
| F. bisetosa | 7 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 30 | ||
| F. bulboides | 5 | 4 | |||||
| F. connata | 3 | 3 | 8 | ||||
| F. galba | 10 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 13 | ||
| F. leydigi | 24 | 26 | 17 | 4 | 11 | ||
| F. paroniana | 4 | 2 | |||||
| F. perrieri | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | |||
| F. ratzeli | 1 | ||||||
| F. striata | 2 | ||||||
| E. buchholzi | 19 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 25 | ||
| E. lacteus | |||||||
| M. argentea | 6 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| immature | 30 | 52 | 27 | 15 | 33 | 8 |
| Plot | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| C. glandulosa | 225 | 74 | 28 | 10 | ||
| C. sphagnetorum | 2 | 63 | 328 | 20 | 70 | |
| A. affinis | ||||||
| A. bohemica | 2 | 8 | 14 | 25 | ||
| A.eiseni | 83 | 6 | ||||
| E. parva | 3 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 4 | |
| F. bisetosa | 2 | 23 | 6 | 7 | 5 | |
| F. bulboides | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||
| F. connata | 2 | |||||
| F. galba | 12 | 4 | 14 | 4 | ||
| F. leydigi | 11 | 4 | 2 | |||
| F. paroniana | ||||||
| F. perrieri | 7 | 5 | 12 | 5 | ||
| F. ratzeli | 1 | |||||
| F. striata | ||||||
| E. buchholzi | 10 | 3 | 2 | 9 | ||
| E. lacteus | 3 | |||||
| M. argentea | 10 | 2 | 18 | |||
| immature | 21 | 3 | 3 | 19 |
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